Intuition Saved My Life Multiple Times | DFS 302

Welcome to destined for success. I'm your

host Jennifer Takagi, and I want to continue the discussion about

intuition. Last week, Dagmar Fleming shared about intuition

and some great things to do some tips and some ideas. And I want

to talk about my personal experience with intuition.

Sometimes intuition can be called a gut feeling like I felt

it in my gut, I knew that was the right thing, or I knew it

wasn't the right thing. Sometimes you get hairs raised

on the back of your neck, that's often in a dangerous situation.

And you're like, ooh, so I need to pay attention to my

surroundings. Sometimes you have voices in your heads. I don't

mean like the crazy kind of voice. I mean, the voice in your

head this, like, you should pay attention to this. All of that

is intuition. All of his important, all of it matters. So

one thing I'm asked often is, how do I know if it's my

intuition? And then I start second guessing. So I was going

to my friend, Christina, and I just have recognized recently

did you notice it? I say, so a lot. It's the beginning of a

sentence. It's going to be my goal from this point on not to

do that. So let's be positive and optimistic that I can start

a sentence differently. People this is real life, and this is

how I roll. I was driving to my friend Christy's house. And it

was five o'clock traffic, it was kind of busy. And my other

friend Leisha taught me to put in the address where I was going

to my GPS, whether I knew how to get there or not. And I was

like, wow, that's a great idea. So I, so I did it. Let's start

counting. I did that I put her address in Christy's addressed

it and off I go. As I am, about a mile from the highway, I want

to get on my GPS start saying, Turn left. Turn left. And I have

named my GPS Lola after Robin Williams in the movie, RV. His

GPS was named Lola. Therefore I named mine, Lola. And Lola says

turn left and I was like, Lola, you're crazy. And I keep going.

I get to this is like an area that has several little lights

close together like not even a full city block apart. And I'm

caught at the next like five o'clock traffic. It's Oklahoma.

You know, we have rush 15 minutes. I'm in the middle of

the rush 15 minutes. And Lola says turn left and I get to the

next little block and the next light and Lola says turn left.

And I'm like Lola, you're nuts. I do not need to turn left like

the highway is right there. I finally make it through the last

light going over the overpass to get onto the highway and I look

and there is a sea of red tail lights. Lola was right. I should

have turned left. If I had turned left at any of the

multiple places she told me to. I could have gotten North one

mile and gotten past this see a taillight? I did not do that. I

didn't stop to think intuitively should I go ahead and listen to

Lola. I was just being argumentative. I was not doing

it. I ended up in a bunch of traffic. I ended up having to

drive on the frontage road for three miles because I wouldn't

even be able to get on the highway. That is an example of

where there was no intuition involved. I had technology that

typically serves me well. Lola has gotten me places and I get

there and I think thank goodness for GPS and for Google Maps

because I would never have arrived at my destination. Yes I

know there's somebody out there the Negative Nelly going well,

Jennifer one time yet sent me down the wrong road. Yeah, it

did mistakes happen. But I'm gonna say 99.9% of the time Lola

gets me where I need to be. And if I need to take a detour. I

try to pay attention to Lola. But this day I was not. And it

costs me Now intuitively, without even checking in without

asking a question. I knew to follow my GPS. She doesn't lead

me astray. But I didn't and therefore That is why it took me

longer to get to Christy's house than it should have taken me.

How do you know how to listen to your intuition? So one easy way,

wherever you are, as long as you're not driving in a car, or

a train or plane, where you're actually driving the vehicle, if

you're at a place where you can safely safely is key, sit up

straight. And I don't mean rigid, but sit up straight, your

shoulders are kind of relaxed, but your back is straight. And

ask yourself a question. That's a yes. Such as for me. I'm going

to say or ask the question Is my name Jennifer, I'm sitting up

straight. And I asked myself is my name Jennifer, and my body

gently leans forward? Because I am Jennifer. If I'm sitting up

straight, and I ask myself, Am I Christie, I lean back a little

bit, and I'm leaning back. Because I'm not Christie, that's

not true for me, our bodies will naturally lean in to something

that is right or true for us. And it will pull away from

what's not for us. Another way is to use a pendulum. If you've

ever worked with me either one on one or attended one of my

group clearing sessions, I use a pendulum and they have all

different stones, I have a tiger's eye, a blue topaz, a

pink quartz, I don't know I have several, they just kind of lay

around the house, I have a white quartz that's missing. And

somebody told me when they go missing, it's because they have

fulfilled their mission in your life. And they just vanish. And

it's vanished. I don't know what's happened, I'm sure it's

in the bottom of a purse or something. But with the crystal,

I hold it in my left hand, I'm right handed, right hand

dominant. And I hold it in my left hand while I'm talking to

the person or I'm talking to myself, not out loud. But like

I'm thinking about the things I want to work on or address. And

as I hold that crystal, I'm literally putting my energy into

it so that the crystal is connecting with me. For me, when

I hold my crystal up, it goes forward and back to indicate a

yes. And it goes around in a counterclockwise circle. To say

no. I have a friend hers is exactly the opposite. Hers goes

in a circle for yes and forward and back for a no, you have to

ask the questions and you have to get in sync with what it is

with using crystals. I know many practitioners who put it out

when the moon is full so the moon can recharge it. Sometimes

they keep them all in a window seal so the sun can recharge it.

I'm sure every bit of that is 100%. True. I'm sure it is. But

I don't got time for that. Ain't nobody got time for that? Well,

I don't. Because that doesn't mean anything to me. It's what

you put meaning on. For me What's meaning is holding it in

my hand and letting it connect with me. The other thing that

you can do is just take time to listen. If you have a big

decision to make in your life, whether it is financial, a

business decision, is this a good business decision or choice

for me or not? Those kinds of questions. If you sit with it

quietly and quietly is very important. The answer will

bubble up and you will hear it whether it's actual words or

just a knowing or you'll see a picture of the outcome. Whatever

it ends up being, it will work out and you will see it. So

there are multiple ways to listen to your intuition. You

can Google it, there are all kinds of YouTube videos on it.

And they all work. They all work. It's what fits for you

that matters. So there are a few times when I did not listen to

my intuition. I've already shared the one go into Chris's

house. The other one that's a really big one. And I have

shared it on stages a couple times. And it's a pretty fun

story. Though, but when I was in high school, one of my besties

introduced me to guy his name was Keith. And I did not like

him from the get go. Like he just was not my kind of guy. And

she would make these little comments about oh, you should

date him. Oh, I just think you'd be the best couple and I'm like,

No.

A few years later, he was a year ahead of me in school and a few

years later he transferred to the University of Oklahoma where

I was going to school working on my Bachelor's, and he moved in

with three or four other guys. And I knew all of them from high

school. Most of them were a year ahead of me, a couple of them

were a couple of years ahead of me, but we all knew each other.

And we ended up going out like as a group, it was like, we're

all from Edmond, Oklahoma. So we'll all go have cocktails or

whatever. And Keith was always there. And before I knew it, I

was dating him, like, how did this happen? And then one day, I

woke up, and I thought, I should not be dating this guy, like, he

is not my kind of guy. So I called him up. And I was like,

hey, I really loved running around with you and being

friends. But I don't think I want to be dating anymore. And

he said, Oh, I'm coming right over to discuss this. Well, he

showed up. And if I had any artistic ability at all, I could

literally draw my bedroom in this duplex that I shared with

my roommate. And I could literally draw him sitting on

the floor with his back against my dresser, hands, you know,

covering his face crying on how he didn't want to break up.

Okay, we had been together like four or five months. I know, in

college, that's like, you know, four lifetimes. But it wasn't

really that long in the grand scheme of things. Against my I

would say, then my better judgment. Now, I would say,

against my intuition against everything that I knew that was

holy. I got back together with him. And that started a pattern

of together, have a fight, breakup together have a fight

breakup, I won't go into all the various things that happen. But

I will say they all ended up with me marrying him, because

that's what you do. You pick the worst possible person, you fight

every instinct you have. And then you marry the guy. Does

that sound like you at all? Have you ever done that? Maybe you

didn't marry and maybe you were smart, and you got out sooner.

My mom really wanted me to be married and he was a guy and he

was there. And it all worked out for 12 months and 11 days. Don't

let anybody jeje 12 minutes. 11 days can be a very long time

people a very long time. So I knew not to marry him. The list

was long on why not to marry him. And let's start with number

one. I'm a Christian. I was born on a Monday my first time in

church was the following Sunday. I have always known I've always

believed, and my belief has never wavered, ever. He was an

atheist. He didn't believe at all. And he thought it was

really fun to poke fun at me. After we married my mom and dad

would come pick me up on Sunday morning to go to church and out

to lunch. You weren't allowed to go out to lunch. If you didn't

go to church. Mom had a few little worlds there. And she'd

say, So Keith didn't want to come today. And I'd say no, he's

never going to want to come. No, he's not. And my mom just could

be so sweet. And she turned around and she goes, Well,

Jennifer, God can move mountains. He can move Keith.

And I went oh, yeah, but our mountains don't argue. So they

didn't fight it. They were like, lame and not lame is in a bad

way lane. But like they were just there. They weren't

fighting back and say no, I'm not moving. And so we divorced.

And when I went to see the preacher, not the preacher that

married us, but another preacher, maybe he was the one

that married us. I don't remember. But I was like, hey,

you know, I don't know about all this. And he said, You had red

flags everywhere. They were like virtually slapping you in the

face. And you refuse to listen. So your sin is not getting a

divorce. Your sin is in not listening when God put every

single possible thing in front of you. So that you would say

no, but you said yes. Anyway. Did I learn a lot in that

relationship? Yes. Did I finally come to terms with the fact that

I played a part in that relationship? Yes, but that was

hard. And it took a lot of years and I didn't really want to do

it. Could I have avoided all that heartache by listening?

Yes. Yes, I could have. I had all the messages but I refuse to

listen to them. So my question for you is are there times when

you can look back Hindsight is 2020 Right? We get that

Hindsight is 2020 Are there times when you can look back and

say, Wow, I knew and I knew in all these ways that it was the

wrong thing, and I did it anyway. Do not beat yourself up

for it, but just recognize that these things happen. And when we

can start seeing a pattern of when we do these things, then we

can start to move beyond it and move past it. So pay attention,

I said, so again, I've been trying so hard not to, but pay

attention to those voices, students messages. Now, when has

listening literally saved my life. If you're newer to the

podcast, and you don't know me very well, I'm Jennifer Takagi

from Oklahoma City. Nice to meet you. On April 19 1995, I worked

in the Murrah Federal Building here in Oklahoma City. And it

was a bright, sunny, beautiful spring day, right after Easter.

And I woke up sick, I had bronchitis I was coughing up a

lung. I had no business, even hardly getting out of bed, much

less going to work. And I sat at the kitchen table, and I debated

for probably 20 minutes do I go to work? Do I stay home? Am I

well enough to go to work or sick enough to stay home, I was

building a career, I was making an impact. I was trying to make

a name for myself. And I needed to go to work. It wasn't the

work from home days back in the day, you had to go into the

office. And a soft, gentle voice said, Stay home, take care of

yourself. And I thought well, that's really weird. I have a

lot to do. And as I had that thought that I have a lot to do.

Another voice said you need to go to work. Not only do you need

to go to work, here are the things you need to do, like gave

me my to do list. And it felt like I had an angel on one

shoulder and a devil on the other one saying sweet, nice

things, stay home take care of yourself. The other being very

harsh, very critical. I decided I would split the difference.

And I would go in at noon. That way I could stay home a little

bit longer, drink some more juice, take a hot shower and

then go to work later. And that way I would appease both halves

of this argument going on in my head. Well, at 9:02am A Ryder

truck pulled up and blew up the Murrah Federal Building. And

that was my building. 35 of my friends and colleagues were

killed from how to loan countless others I knew within

the building. And had I gone to work. I would be dead because

the building sheared off about three feet south of my desk and

at nine in the morning. I was almost always at my desk it

would have been a rare occurrence that I wasn't. And

everybody around me was killed everybody that sat near me. I

got back a crumpled note. A crumpled nameplate that my mom

had bought me when I got my first job and a few family

pictures. And that was it out of my workstation. I knew that I

knew that I knew that I was literally not supposed to be

there that day. And had I not listen to the message I would

not be sharing with you now. Because I would have not

survived. Another time I was driving home from work. And it

was a funky intersection. There was a stoplight. And then you

went not even a city block maybe half a city block if even that

and there was another light is like the streets all Christi

crossed right there. And the speed limit was like 40 miles an

hour. I'm in the right lane. There's a car in the left lane

and we're pretty close together like not really neck and neck

but pretty close to neck and neck. And out of the corner of

my eye on the right. headed south and we were headed west. I

could see this car coming really fast. And our light had just

turned green. And I knew that that car was not going to stop.

And I literally stood up on the brake with both feet slamming on

my brakes and laying on my horn.

And because I laid on my horn and I'm sure my tires were

screeching. The woman in the car next to me slammed on her brakes

too because she didn't know what was happening because I was

making so much noise with screeching brakes and laying on

the horn you get The picture right like it was a whole thing

going on right then. And she stopped to had she not stopped,

she would a T boned that car, that guy would have been killed,

and probably she and her boyfriend would have been

killed. So we both looked at each other, we take a breath, we

go to the next little light. It's read also, when we're both

trying to catch our breath. And I, I noticed something out of

the corner of my eye, and I turn and look to my left. And she is

laying over her passengers. person sitting there and there

was a guy and had him roll down the window. And she was waving

at me and I rolled my window down and she goes, Oh, my God,

you just saved my life. And I went, I know, I know, I don't

know how and I don't know why. But I know because I knew if I

did not stop her. One, two, or all three of them were going to

be killed, it just was going to be too fast, too high impact of

a wreck. And once I caught my breath, and we made it through

that intersection, she went her way I went my way. I'm thinking

about this scenario. Nobody ever taught me and Driver's Ed. If

there's a crisis slam on your brakes and lay on your horn,

like that never came up. I believe I was intuitively

divinely my higher self source God, all of the above any of the

above guided me to slam on my brakes and horn at the same

time. And when I say stand on my brakes, I literally was standing

up in my seat with both feet on my brakes to stop the car.

having had that experience, some time pass, it could have been a

year it could have been five years I don't remember the the

timing of it. I was driving to work on a residential, you know,

a through street speed limits 40. I'm in the left lane. And

two cars in front of me is at a dead stop turning left. And

there's a car in front of me and then me and I just happened to

look in my rearview mirror. I'm at a dead stop. And there is a

commercial van vehicle construction type vehicle coming

up on me. And I can see in my rearview mirror He is literally

has his head turned talking to the passenger. He doesn't see

that we're all at a dead stop. So I laid on my horn. Because I

learned right I learned from the previous message if you lay on

your horn, everybody looks around. He looked up and at the

last second was able to whip over into the right lane and

avoid a collision altogether. And I did take a moment of

gratitude and thank you that I was guided to hit my horn in

Oklahoma, we don't really honk much some places they just honk

willy nilly and nobody pays attention. In Oklahoma people

don't really honk a lot. If you honk you're like really pissed

off or there's really a problem. But when somebody opts everybody

looks around. And those are a few really critical times in my

life when paying attention to my intuition, paying attention to

the message, whether it's an audible message in my head,

whether it's a gut feeling, don't go down that street, stop

and get gas. You don't want to go to the next case gas station.

I ended up randomly being stranded in Atlanta and I rented

a car and drove from Atlanta, to our little lake place in eastern

Oklahoma. It was a 12 and a half hour drive. And then I had

another almost three hours to get to the airport to return the

rental car the next day. And I pulled into a parking into a gas

station. And I was on the phone it was Bluetooth but I was on

the phone talking to a girlfriend because it was a long

drive to talk to a lot of people that day. And I'm trying to get

to a pump and I look around everything around me is in

tatters the cars, the people, the gas station building itself.

And I was like hang on a minute, I gotta back out of here. And I

let God out and I backed out of there and I went to the next gas

station and it was clean and it was bright and it was you know

not all in tatters. Would anything bad had happened to me

at that first gas station? Probably not. But why do I need

to feel icky about getting gas in a rental car that I had to

google how to get steaks I could put gas in it. These are the you

know first world problems that I have. So listening I did Again,

there was another. So listening to your intuition can either

save you from a whole lot of heartache such as a divorce when

you shouldn't have gotten married in the first place. Or

it can literally save your life. I encourage you to start

listening to start paying attention, write a list of 10

questions that are yes or no? And have four or five of them be

yes. And the others be knows, in practice, is it a yes? Is it a

no. I wasn't an event and somebody was leading us through

a visualization. I can talk visualization exercise. And she

was talking about our future. And we all were standing with

our eyes closed, and she was talking about our future, and

what it's going to look like and what it's going to look like for

you as an individual. And, and then she stopped and said, what

if it's five years from now, and you've not done anything

different? So what a break another. So at the break, we

broke into groups of two to discuss our experience. And I'm

talking to this gal and she's I said, Did you Did your body

physically move during that exercise? And she said, yeah,

why? And I said, when she was talking about your future life,

did your body literally lean forward? And she said, Yes. And

I said, and then when she talked about if in five years, you've

done nothing. Did you lean back? And she said, Yeah, I thought I

was just kind of swaying because we were standing with our eyes

closed, and I said, No, you leaned forward to lean into your

future, because that's what you want. And you pull back to get

away from what you didn't want. If you would like an audio

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